North London Food & Culture

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Best Daytime Food 2011

1= Kentish Canteen 1= Mario’s Cafe 3. Map Studio Cafe Our corner of North London, if you look carefully, is spoilt by the sheer range of food options, from Ethiopian to Pakistani, Sicilian to Japanese. And so votes in this category covered a huge range of places, with high street stalwarts Phoenicia Food Hall and …

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Bored Tonight? Watch Francis Neve in Camden

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCeM7XOgkSg&feature=youtube_gdata_player] Eagle-eyed readers will remember our connections with fast-rising East London-based singer-songwriter Francis Neve. And since we last mentioned him six months ago, he’s had a couple of BBC 6 Music Breakfast Records of the week, the lucky boy. Like this one. And if you can weave it into the no doubt hideously complex social …

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Best Random Thing 2011

Best random thing was a lovely category. Random can mean anything, after all, from the surreal to the juxtaposed: so it could be a plaque celebrating the life of Boris The Cat (1986-1996) on Angler’s Lane; Alistair Campbell ordering a latte in shorts and flip-flops at Kentish Canteen; or speculation as to how and why …

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Best of 2011? Vote now.

Last Christmas our inaugural Top 10 2010 was a surprise hit so we’re doing it again this year. And now that our readership has grown several-fold, we’re desirous of a little feedback (if we may be so bold). So help us out, local people: is the Southampton your favourite boozer? the Bull & Last your …

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